[PATCH v9 24/24] powerpc/mm: Add speculative page fault

From: Laurent Dufour
Date: Tue Mar 13 2018 - 14:01:44 EST


This patch enable the speculative page fault on the PowerPC
architecture.

This will try a speculative page fault without holding the mmap_sem,
if it returns with VM_FAULT_RETRY, the mmap_sem is acquired and the
traditional page fault processing is done.

The speculative path is only tried for multithreaded process as there is no
risk of contention on the mmap_sem otherwise.

Build on if CONFIG_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT is defined (currently for
BOOK3S_64 && SMP).

Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
index 866446cf2d9a..104f3cc86b51 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
@@ -392,6 +392,9 @@ static int __do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address,
unsigned long error_code)
{
struct vm_area_struct * vma;
+#ifdef CONFIG_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT
+ struct vm_area_struct *spf_vma = NULL;
+#endif
struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
unsigned int flags = FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY | FAULT_FLAG_KILLABLE;
int is_exec = TRAP(regs) == 0x400;
@@ -459,6 +462,20 @@ static int __do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address,
if (is_exec)
flags |= FAULT_FLAG_INSTRUCTION;

+#ifdef CONFIG_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT
+ if (is_user && (atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) > 1)) {
+ /* let's try a speculative page fault without grabbing the
+ * mmap_sem.
+ */
+ fault = handle_speculative_fault(mm, address, flags, &spf_vma);
+ if (!(fault & VM_FAULT_RETRY)) {
+ perf_sw_event(PERF_COUNT_SW_SPF, 1,
+ regs, address);
+ goto done;
+ }
+ }
+#endif /* CONFIG_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT */
+
/* When running in the kernel we expect faults to occur only to
* addresses in user space. All other faults represent errors in the
* kernel and should generate an OOPS. Unfortunately, in the case of an
@@ -489,7 +506,16 @@ static int __do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address,
might_sleep();
}

- vma = find_vma(mm, address);
+#ifdef CONFIG_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT
+ if (spf_vma) {
+ if (can_reuse_spf_vma(spf_vma, address))
+ vma = spf_vma;
+ else
+ vma = find_vma(mm, address);
+ spf_vma = NULL;
+ } else
+#endif
+ vma = find_vma(mm, address);
if (unlikely(!vma))
return bad_area(regs, address);
if (likely(vma->vm_start <= address))
@@ -568,6 +594,9 @@ static int __do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address,

up_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);

+#ifdef CONFIG_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT
+done:
+#endif
if (unlikely(fault & VM_FAULT_ERROR))
return mm_fault_error(regs, address, fault);

--
2.7.4